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Our Founding Fathers routinely spoke about the cost of Tyranny and the cost of Liberty.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the things Jefferson was saying here is that for Liberty to be retained blood must be spilled. Sometimes it is metaphoric blood, sometimes it is real actual red blood. In the best cases, this blood will be that of people like Saddam Hussein and not our soldiers. But in some cases, it will be the blood of innocents who are killed by tyrants. This includes petty tyrants looking to make a name for themselves by shooting up schools.

Something, by the way, that would not happen if we honored the Constitution as written. Shall not be infringed means NO GUN FREE ZONES. It also means EVERY single person would have the right and option to protect themselves.

Would that stop all killings? Would it stop all mass shootings?

Definitively, no. But it would greatly reduce the body count. Evil exists and evil will find the cracks in the law (or work around them), but when they act and one or more people are armed and able to stop them… the body count drops dramatically. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but they are something like… mass shootings stopped by the authorities average just under 15 dead. Mass shootings (attempts) encountering / stopped by an armed citizen average just under 3 dead.

Even if I was not worried about the erosion of liberty and personal responsibility; that would be enough t get me to want, nay DEMAND the ability to carry everywhere.

Some say allowing guns in schools will kill kids in the crossfire. If my numbers are accurate (and they are pretty close). The concerned armed citizen would have to kill 10+ people in the crossfire. I am pretty sure that is NOT going to happen.

Liberty has a cost.

it costs personal responsibility

it costs personal sacrifice

it costs removing the veil of “feeling” safe behind feel good laws and replacing it with actions that will reduce risks and increase survival rates

it costs the lives of those taken by those who chose to abuse the liberties afforded to all

it also costs society, to be willing to truly provide SEVERE consequences to those who break the social compact. Death penalty (and not 20 years later)

How to stop (most) campus shootings. — how to do it cheaply, without significantly increasing debt or cost to schools and greatly increasing the protection to our most valuable assets.
#1 remove the restriction on campus carry for all who have a valid CCW issued by or recognized by the state the school is in.
#2 give teachers / administrators / other workers who choose to carry on campus a small stipend (annually) – much like the teacher who runs the debate or chess team. The stipend is $500 and $250 is paid in cash, the other $250 must be used for follow on training classes for remaining current in tactical doctrine, actual ability to shoot… Think of it as CEU’s for school protection. The employee also gets paid (comp time) for up to 8 hours of such training per year.

The combination of these two items will get a significant number of good guys with guns on campus.

No, it will not stop all campus shooting, but it will greatly decrease the body count and that SHOULD be what really matters.

I know it will never happen because of SJW, teacher unions, massive hand wringing and anti gun funding of shills like Mom’s Demand Action who … never mind, not going there.

I have an idea. The UN is taking up a HUGE tract of land in New York that could more profitably be used for other things. The UN buildings are desperately in need of repairs / rebuilding. The US people are pretty sick of them being their (mostly rent free). The NYC people are sick of the unpaid parking tickets and other random annoyance of the Diplomatic Immunity crowd.

So I have a suggestion that should work well for all people and help to revive an American City.

Relocate the UN Headquarters to Detroit.

The land is cheap. Finding 100 contiguous city blocks to redevelop shouldn’t be any kind of an issue. The city is in desperate need of a cash infusion. The new building alone should bring roughly $300-500 million alone. Then all the diplomatic compounds that would be put in would create a complete renaissance in the area they choose.

It would also make the typical diplomat and UN worker feel much more at home, given their nations are much closer to how Detroit is today then NYC.

I see it as a win for NYC. They get rid of the UN locusts.
A win for the UN, they get new digs and an area HAPPY to have them and their associated revenues.
A win for the politico’s as their chicanery, corruption and avarice will go unnoticed in the political landscape of Detroit.
A win for the US people as Detroit has long ago been written off anyway.
A win for the US Treasury as no one will even notice when we completely quit funding any aspect of the UN. Being fly over country, WaPo and the NY Times won’t even notice.

Allen West is a great guy, great patriot and in all fairness, this is written by Michael Cantrell.

In the last paragraph, he gives a nod to what SHOULD actually happen, but seems willing to carve out another exception for our “betters”. Here I stand resolute, no exceptions for the pretty people, for the connected, for the dastardly.

The first two, most people get pretty easily. The last one might need some explanation. Our good pal chuckie schumer (intentional lower case) HATES gun rights. He hates gun rights for common citizens. He actively works to strip you of your gun (and other) rights, but this type of legislation would ONCE AGAIN allow him to circumvent the law.

Obamacare much.

Good ole chuckie (and his ilk) are no better than me, no better than your grandmother, no better than Mike Lee’s administrative assistant. Each of us has a life. Each of us has the GOD given right to protect that life with any and all means necessary, but that stops at the city limits of DC. That stops at the front door of the post office. That stops in the entire state of NJ. But this would end that for our “betters” in even broader cloth than it does now.

I ask you why? Why should that be allowed. Make them live with the same restrictions they force on us. Make them face our same fears. Make them sit in our chair and maybe, just maybe some of those things will change.

So the Mayor has put the Baltimore police on MANDATORY 12 hour shifts. Other than burning out the police and getting even more of them to quit, what is that going to do?

SCOTUS has specifically stated, the job of the police is to protect society, not the individual. So these 12 hour shifts will get the clean up crew there quicker? Is that the goal? Or just a way to make the Mayor look like the city is “doing something”, because after all, the busted budget is a taxpayer’s problem not theirs.

Now, on to an item that might actually go a long way to fix the problem, easy citizen carry of a concealed weapon. Yes, I know. The horror, only criminals and Baltimore police should be carrying guns (some overlap).

But if we compare Chicago and Houston. Similar sized towns with three major differences.

Chicago is Democrat controlled, quite cold in the winter and has very few citizens allowed to carry guns

Houston is NOT democrat controlled, does not get quite cold in winter and has a HUGE populations of citizens who carry guns

Lets look at homicide rates:

Chicago: in 2012 – 1806 murders — or 38.4 per 100k in a population of 2.7 million

Houston: in 2012 – 207 murders — or 9.6 per 100k in a population of 2.15 million

Lets guess which of those items leads to the difference. Free hint, it’s not the weather.

Guess which of those two cities Baltimore is like? No, you don’t get a second guess.